O’Connor gets revenge, sweeps C.C. Carroll

Published 9:10 pm, Saturday, May 16, 2015

Forgetting about the past, especially considering how painful it was, probably would have been the reasonable thing.

The O’Connor softball team, though, couldn’t let go of losing last year in the first round of the playoffs for only the second time and the first since 1999, its first varsity season. The wound was too deep. The memory was too fresh.

“It was hard facing a lot of people at O’Connor, getting (knocked) out in first round,” O’Connor junior pitcher Kelsie Stone said. “They expect a lot of us.”

The Panthers won’t have to deal with such an issue this year — they defeated Corpus Christi Carroll 3-2 in Game 2 of a Class 6A third-round series, sweeping the series and getting payback against the team that ended their 2014 season.